Matriarch Quotes

#1. Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

Tony Scott

#2. ..."Unforgiveness," said Pastor Allen, "is the cup of poison that we pour for another, and then drink ourselves."
'You are becoming a very bitter and twisted person, Hana Du Rose,' she chided herself as they sang the final hymn.

From the New Du Rose Matriarch

K.T. Bowes

#3. Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it's actually a pub.

Julia Quinn

#4. While the matriarch operates on the basis of knowledge, the rest of the herd operates on the basis of trust.

Frans De Waal

#5. Like Sarah, treat your husband like what he might become. When all the facts said Sarah would have no vineyard, she became a matriarch to nations. Sarah learned to behave as though she would become a mother to nations
and she did.
pg 21

Michael Ben Zehabe

#6. She called herself Mater Tantibus." I scraped the rust off my Latin. "Mother of Nightmares?" "Pretentious, right?" Said the Grand Matriarch of the House of Dead Roses, I thought, but I was smart enough not to say that out loud.

Craig Schaefer

#7. All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

Sally Phillips

#8. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

Tony Scott

#9. I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian and a force as a producer. She paved the way for women to produce and star in their own films, and to balance that with being the matriarch of our family is really inspiring.

Kate Hudson

#10. The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

Mario Batali

#11. When the matriarch is gone, so is the herd's collective memory.

Jodi Picoult

#12. Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

Liz Rosenberg

#13. The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

Nick Bakay

#14. A matriarch who considers powerful sneezes as noise disruptions worthy of eviction.

Alessandra Torre

#15. We inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family - a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on the support of the surrogate parents, sun and moon, to manage her terrestrial brood.

John Lamb Lash

#16. Mum just laughed gleefully at his mounting frustration, like the villainous matriarch in a Roald Dahl story. I suspect a TV guide would describe her idea of comedy as 'dark', or, at very best, 'alternative'.

Matthew Crow

#17. Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Lillian Smith

#18. My grandmother, Angela, was the Fox family matriarch. She was magnetic but also wicked. She had this huge life force and was great fun, but she would play each member of the family off against each other, which could make for extremely dramatic Christmases.

Emilia Fox

#19. Love. Comfort. I didn't know what those were, but I wanted them. I would have them. I closed the distance and snapped the man's neck.
As the third corpse dropped to the floor at my feet, the Matriarch smiled.

S.J. Kincaid

#20. In marriage, those who persevere are rewarded with the most precious thing this earth has to offer: Marital love
a partnership that conquers the years. It takes time, but those who persevere are rewarded with, falling in love with their spouse.
pg v

Michael Ben Zehabe

#21. He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle - like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

Nadia Scrieva

#22. Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.
The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

Steven Moffat

#23. My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.

Scott Adkins

#24. However, ask someone to articulate Indian community values and there won't be a clear answer. Do

Chetan Bhagat

#25. She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.

S. Kelley Harrell

#26. India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.

Deborah Sampson

#28. I can act ... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

Chris Colfer

#29. Cinder pressed a hand against the bars, but the soldiers pulled her away, forming a protective wall between her and the barricade. As if she was worth protecting. Cinder tried not to be annoyed.

Marissa Meyer

#30. They didn't even had the authority to choose an alcoholic beverage. They couldn't be deciding who deserved to live or die.

Maggie Stiefvater

#31. Real love is not about being powerful, it's about rendering yourself powerless.

K.T. Bowes

#32. On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.

Tony Curtis

#33. There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#34. The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.

Frederick Lenz